Honours and titles

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    • Great Britain. Central Office of Information. Reference Services

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Honours and titles

(Aspects of Britain)

HMSO, 1992

  • : pbk.

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Bibliographical references : p. [119]-121

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Britain's honours system - its peerage, baronetage and orders of knighthood - is complex, but of great social and historical interest. This book describes how the various peerages and orders have developed over the centuries and how peerages and other honours are bestowed today.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction
  • the Royal family
  • the Royal household
  • kings, heralds and pursuivants of arms
  • the peerage - categories and degrees
  • the peerage - titles and privileges
  • courtesy titles
  • lords spiritual
  • baronetcies
  • knighthoods and orders
  • choosing recipients of honours and investitures
  • decorations and medals
  • certain appointments carrying the right to a prefix or initials
  • other titles
  • academic and professional distinctions
  • order in which indications of ranks and honours should be placed
  • list of monarchs of England and Scotland
  • six appendices
  • addresses.

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